TY - JOUR
T1 - Soil: The great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19
AU - Poch, Rosa M.
AU - Dos Anjos, Lucia H.C.
AU - Attia, Rafla
AU - Balks, Megan
AU - Benavides-Mendoza, Adalberto
AU - Bolaños-Benavides, Martha M.
AU - Calzolari, Costanza
AU - Chabala, Lydia M.
AU - De Ruiter, Peter C.
AU - Francke-Campaña, Samuel
AU - García Préchac, Fernando
AU - Graber, Ellen R.
AU - Halavatau, Siosiua
AU - Hassan, Kutaiba M.
AU - Hien, Edmond
AU - Jin, Ke
AU - Khan, Mohammad
AU - Konyushkova, Maria
AU - Lobb, David A.
AU - Moshia, Matshwene E.
AU - Murase, Jun
AU - Nziguheba, Generose
AU - Patra, Ashok K.
AU - Pierzynski, Gary
AU - Rodríguez Eugenio, Natalia
AU - Vargas Rojas, Ronald
PY - 2020/11/5
Y1 - 2020/11/5
N2 - Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment, among other functions. COVID-19 is threatening food availability in many places of the world due to the disruption of food chains, lack of workforce, closed borders and national lockdowns. As a consequence, more emphasis is being placed on local food production, which may lead to more intensive cultivation of vulnerable areas and to soil degradation. In order to increase the resilience of populations facing this pandemic and future global crises, transitioning to a paradigm that relies more heavily on local food production on soils that are carefully tended and protected through sustainable management is necessary. To reach this goal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends five active strategies: improved access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investments in education and extension. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
AB - Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment, among other functions. COVID-19 is threatening food availability in many places of the world due to the disruption of food chains, lack of workforce, closed borders and national lockdowns. As a consequence, more emphasis is being placed on local food production, which may lead to more intensive cultivation of vulnerable areas and to soil degradation. In order to increase the resilience of populations facing this pandemic and future global crises, transitioning to a paradigm that relies more heavily on local food production on soils that are carefully tended and protected through sustainable management is necessary. To reach this goal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends five active strategies: improved access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investments in education and extension. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
U2 - 10.5194/soil-6-541-2020
DO - 10.5194/soil-6-541-2020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096026629
VL - 6
SP - 541
EP - 547
JO - SOIL
JF - SOIL
SN - 2199-3971
IS - 2
ER -